Record Source: Other PACSCL Partners / Form: Correspondence / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1803">1803</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Archives of Charles Scribner's Sons, 1786-2004 (inclusive) 1880s-1970s (bulk)

Extent:: 1492 boxes, 66 items, 151 volumes, and 750 linear feet
Abstract:: This collection consists of virtually all of the surviving records of Scribners (1846-1984), the New York City publisher, and reflect aspects of all of its publishing functions (soliciting and acquiring books, editing manuscripts, printing and manufacturing books, advertising and publicizing publications) and business concerns (book and magazine publisher, retail bookstore, subscription books department, educational books department, printing press and bindery, rare books department). Included are files of editorial correspondence with authors, manufacturing records about book production, advertising records, author contracts, a collection of dust jackets, book catalogs, ledgers, and photographs. While there are gaps in most of the series or record groups, there are records representative of all of the firm's former permutations: Baker & Scribner, Charles Scribner & Co., Scribner, Armstrong & Co., Scribner, Armstrong & Welford, Scribner & Co., Charles Scribner's Sons. The bulk of...(see more)

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

James Robertson Collection, 1781-1804 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of later eighteenth and early nineteenth-century correspondence and documents regarding monies owed to James Robertson by the estate of Lord James Drummond, the Earl of Perth.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Wolcott Family Correspondence, 1763-1838 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of copies of family correspondence of Frederick Wolcott of Litchfield, Connecticut. Wolcott was a son of Connecticult governor Oliver Wolcott, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, 1280s-1958 (inclusive) 1800s-1930s (bulk)

Extent:: 51 boxes, 229 items, and 13 volumes
Abstract:: The Robert H. Taylor Collection consists of over 4,000 3,300 manuscripts illustrating in their wide range the scope of English literature from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. This finding aid focuses on the modern manuscripts, both bound and unbound, in the collection, which is designated "RTC01" within the Manuscripts Division of the Special Collections Department of the Princeton University Library.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

19th-Century Maritime Collection, 1781-1928 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, documents, financial material, and printed matter of Caleb Bates, captain of the Juno of Boston, John B. Church, marine insurance underwriter, and others involved in predominantly nineteenth-century American maritime trade.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

William Kelly Prentice Papers, 1797-1965 (inclusive) 1900-1955 (bulk)

Extent:: 7 boxes
Abstract:: Consists of works, correspondence, and documents of William Kelly Prentice, a Greek scholar and authority on classical inscriptions, as well as selected papers of his father and various other family members.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Benjamin Tallmadge Collection, 1756-1846 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 1.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists mostly of papers from a family album of American Revolutionary intelligence officer Benjamin Tallmadge (1754-1835) relating to his Revolutionary War experience.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Joseph Hill Collection of William Cowper, 1716-1825 (inclusive) 1760-1810 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: The Joseph Hill Collection of William Cowper consists of correspondence between Cowper, a famed British poet, and Hill, his close friend and mentor.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Student Correspondence and Writings Collection, 1768-2020 (inclusive)

Extent:: 19 boxes and 4 digital files
Abstract:: The Student Correspondence and Writings Collection contains original materials from the university archives that document aspects of student life as experienced by students at Princeton University.

Held at: Princeton University Library: University Archives [Contact Us]

E. Stanley Atkinson Autograph Collection, 1748-1889 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box
Abstract:: Consists of letters and documents signed by historical figures from both the Revolutionary War and the pre-Civil War periods of American history, collected by E. Stanley Atkinson, a member of the Princeton Class of 1910.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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